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September 16, 2005

Long, Long, Time Now

Outside of the wacky standings of 1981, the last time the Yankees were this close to 1st place (within 1.5 games) while actually not being in first on September 16th of a season was 1964.

On 9/16/64, the Yankees were a 1/2 game back of both the White Sox and O's - who were tied for first.

The Yankees ended-up winning that year, finishing 1 game over the O's and 2 over the White Sox. However, it wasn't really that close over the full final three weeks of the year. The Yankees took sole possession of 1st on 9/19 - and eventually had a 4 game cushion - only to let it whittle down in the season's final days.